Antonio Viego, Associate Professor of Literature and Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies

Office Location:	Director, Latino/A Studies 224 Friedl Building, Old Art Muse
Office Phone:	(919) 668-2687, (919) 684-4375
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

LIT 390.07, SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE Synopsis
Friedl Bdg 240, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
(also cross-listed as LSGS 290.01, SXL 290.02, WOMENST 290.06)
LIT 690.06, SPECIAL TOPIS IN LITERATURE Synopsis
Carr 125, W 01:40 PM-04:10 PM
(also cross-listed as LSGS 690.01, WOMENST 590.01)

Office Hours:: Wednesday: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Education:

PhD in English	University of Pennsylvania	1999
BA	Swarthmore College	1989

Specialties:: Spanish
Modern and Contemporary
Latino Studies
Latin-American Studies
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Psychoanalysis, Psychology
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Critical Theory, Philosophy

Research Interests:: Current projects: Psychoanalytic Theory and Latino/a Identities/Histories; Latino/a Studies, Queer/Lesbian/Gay Studies, Twentieth Century American Literatures, Critical Race Theory, Chicana Feminist Theory, Comparative Ethnicities, Psychoanalytic Theory

Areas of Interest:: Latino/a political movements
Latino/a literatures
Queer/Gay/Lesbian Theory
Gay/Lesbian History
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory
Cuban-American Literature
20th Century Cuban History

Keywords:: Latino/a • Sexuality • Gender • Psychoanalytic Theory

Current Ph.D. Students

Recent Publications

A. Viego, "The Life of the Undead: Biopower, Latino Anxiety, and the epidemiological paradox", Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 19 no. 2 (July, 2010), pp. 131-148, Routledge
Wounded Chicana Cartographies: Diagnosing Injury and Maligning Politicized Identities, in Geographies of Latinidad, edited by Matt Garcia (2008), Durham: Duke University Press
A. Viego, "Hysterical Ties, Chicano/a Amnesia and the Sinthomestiza Subject", Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2008)
A. Viego, Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (2007), Duke University Press
A. Viego, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson, GLQ (Fall, 2004)

Conferences Organized
The Seeds of Change: Latino/as in the Here and Now, February 2003
The Color of Hegemony: Latino/as in North Carolina, February 2002

Antonio Viego received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He has written essays on Chicana/o video and film, contemporary lesbian and gay Chicana/o & Latina/o literatures and Chicana feminist theory. He teaches courses on Cuban-American literature, Chicana/o & Latina/o cultural studies, queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory. He is currently completing a book entitled, "The Unconscious of Latinidad". In it he claims that the constructions of ethnic, racial and sexual identities in legal discourse as well as the political and social movements organized around these categories in the U.S. must be studied in relation to the history of ego psychology and the distortion of Freudian psychoanalytic theory in the U.S. The book argues that unless we attempt to read racialized trauma according to a more Freudian, Lacanian understanding for subjectivity we will continue to misunderstand why racial stigma persists and, more generally, why the laws humans create to protect against forms of discrimination leave in place a notion of the racialized subject as emptied of interiority and the psychical.